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title: Community Basics
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Everything within our community must adhere to our conduct policies. This document deals with some trickier moderation decisions you may be wondering about.
[:material-book: Read our Code of Conduct](../../CODE_OF_CONDUCT.md){ .md-button .md-button--primary }
## Keep a Light Touch
In many situations, our community can be trusted to self-moderate. If you have been granted moderation privileges, you are empowered to make any moderation decisions you deem necessary.
However, it is better in many situations to enter a conversation and "cool down" the discussion taking place, or steer it towards a more constructive topic.
This is better than ending conversations, deleting posts, or locking threads in many situations. People can feel very passionate about some of the issues we discuss in our community, and this can lead to heated discussions, but in the end many such people only want to be a vocal advocate for their position, and can be guided to do so in a constructive manner.
Of course, conversations that devolve into harassment or other violations of our strict code of conduct should be ended immediately and reported.
## Identifying "Bad Faith" Comments
We should always strive to enter discussions in good faith. Likewise, we expect participants in our communities to engage in good faith as well. When reading comments in our community, comments which meet the following definition of "bad faith" should be removed: